Essen SPIEL '18 Live Blog - Saturday
Rudy Games Talk About What's New With App Assisted Scubi & Lost Galaxy
Oct 27 2018 @ 10:30
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We were able to talk to the guys from Rudy Games about what they have been working on and with both Scubi & Lost Galaxy popping up on our radar.
The awesome thing about these games is that they are combined with a digital app, making the most out of modern technology AND what regular board games have to offer.
The apps that run with these games help teach you how to play them AND they offer interesting and unique options for hidden knowledge and such, especially with Lost Galaxy.
They also look very nice too!
I have an original 30yr old copy of Survive: Escape from Atlantis. While the game is still in print, except for some minor rule and component changes my 30yr old copy still works. My issue with app or computer software REQUIRED for playing a board game, is that none of the software is open source. When that hardware or software it was meant to run on goes away, so does the ability to play that game. If the software is simply supplemental or used as a tutorial, fine, because the core game can live without the software. Finally, I like… Read more »
While I agree that apps do bring new possibilities to games,
I’m afraid I agree with turbocooler that there just isn’t the longevity (especially as everybody seems to go for android or iOS apps rather than windows software which at least stands a reasonable change of being emulated to run on future versions)
Don’t know about app in game, game can defiantly benefit but tech. becomes obsolete, whereas a game should not (the age of sigmar is the exception that proves the rule). Will future aps require cash or adds?